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• Carshalton’s annual Lavender harvest returns next month

  01-06-2023 19:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  One weekend a year, a 3-acre private lavender field is open to the public to visit and harvest your own bunch of lavender from the fields.
  (c) Carshalton Lavender
  At one time, lavender was widely grown across much of south London as a crop, but these days it’s found in just a handful of locations, and in 1996, a 3-acre plot of disused land in Carshalton was planted with Lavandula Intermedia by the local environmental charity BioRegional.
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• China Telecom reportedly building $434 million quantum computing unit

  01-06-2023 18:35
  Chinese Telco China Telecom is dropping some cash on a new quantum computing division, according to a report.
  China Telecom has dropped 3 billion yuan ($434 million) to set up China Telecom Quantum Information Technology Group according to Reuters, quoting a statement on its WeChat account. There doesn’t appear to be anything in terms of a press release.
  The division will be based in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui, and will unsurprisingly be tasked with developing quantum technology
  
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• 3.3 billion EoT devices will be trading with each other by 2030, apparently

  01-06-2023 16:58
  A report – commissioned by Vodafone and carried out by STL Partners – estimates there will be 88 million devices next year that can ‘independently and securely trade together’, rising to 3.3 billion by 2030.
  The Economy of Things isn’t a term that’s as widely used the Internet of Things, and the report describes it as ‘a world in which vehicles, devices and machines can interact and transact with each other via a secure digital platform’.
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• Abseil off the top of the Lloyd’s Building in the City

  01-06-2023 16:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  If you fancy abseiling off the top of the Lloyds Building in the City of London, then you can next month — for charity.It’s part of the annual Lord Mayor’s Appeal, so you need to be able to raise £500 from your friends and colleagues who will be more than happy to see you leap off the side of a building with just a thin rope to hold you up.
  The abseil is open to everyone who is over 18 and reasonably fit and healthy.  No previous experience is needed as there will be
  
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• Mayors of London and Manchester call for HS2 to be built in full

  01-06-2023 15:10 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  With delays and changes to plans, the Mayors of Greater Manchester and London have jointly called for HS2 to be built, in full, from London Euston station to Manchester Piccadilly station.The letter also outlines the importance of building Manchester Piccadilly as an underground station that supports Northern Powerhouse Rail in full — rather than the proposed above-ground station — and that HS2 connects with a London terminus at Euston, not six miles outside the city centre.
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• London exhibitions to visit in June 2023

  01-06-2023 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit while dodging random bursts of heavy rain in the summer months.Coronations & Celebrations
  Fan Museum, Greenwich
  (Note, the exhibition closes 24th June)
  Adults: £5 | Children (7-16): £3 | Children (<7): Free | Family £10
  Come and see centuries of royal fans from across the continent: from a special, printed, English fan marking the restoration of Charles II almost 400 years ago, to the contemporary fans made by The Fan Mus
  
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• ESB Networks drafts in Nokia and Sigma for new 4G private network

  01-06-2023 12:37
  Nokia and Sigma Wireless Communications will install a private 4G/LTE mobile network for Irish energy company ESB Networks.
  The new LTE-based private wireless system will be installed over a three-year period, and the firm says the connectivity goodness will enable the integration of renewable energy to the grid, decarbonization of the electrical network and electrification of heat and transport.
  A ‘dedicated Smart Grid telecoms network’, as the release puts it, is part of ESB Networ
  
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• Currys to resell Vodafone home broadband

  01-06-2023 11:41
  Operator group Vodafone is raising its UK fixed line game by expanding its partnership with electronics retail giant Currys.
  Essentially this seems to be designed to enable Currys customers to access the Vodafone Together mobile and fixed bundle, which offers the kinds of discounts on the component parts that you would expect. Currys was already reselling Vodafone mobile contracts and the operator seems to be on a general broadband push right now.
  Vodafone claims to have not only ‘the UK&r
  
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• TfL in talks to buy more Elizabeth line trains to cope with HS2 demand

  01-06-2023 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  
  Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it is working on plans to buy more Elizabeth line trains to cope with demand when HS2 opens its Old Oak Common station.
  Elizabeth line trains lined up at their Old Oak Common depot
  The HS2 railway should be terminating at Euston, but for a number of years, it will terminate at Old Oak Common, which will have an interchange with the Elizabeth line, and that is expected to put a lot of extra demand on the Elizabeth line as HS2 passengers seek to contin
  
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• IoT Security Landscape Report

  01-06-2023 01:01
  The IoT Security Landscape Report is a Bitdefender annual report that identifies the most vulnerable home IoT devices in user homes and addresses the hidden threats posed by unregularized smart devices.
  The findings are based on threat intelligence collected from 2.6 million smart homes globally protected by NETGEAR Armor powered by Bitdefender, and they reveal an unsettling truth: the growing popularity of connected devices makes the home network more vulnerable to attacks than ever before. Eve
  
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• Finding vulnerabilities in IoT devices. Protecting the Smart Home

  01-06-2023 01:01
  “Finding vulnerabilities in IoT devices” is a paper aimed at raising awareness about the many hidden vulnerabilities of smart home devices.
  As of 2022, Bitdefender has tested over 80 off-the-shelf consumer smart devices. In our research we found a variety of security and privacy issues that the creators of said products had not discovered on their own. Some of these issues can be mitigated, but others cannot as they affect older devices that are no longer supported. Currently, there
  
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